Aileen and Rachel attended the DPEA Stakeholders’ Forum yesterday on behalf of SAS. There is a lot to write up and it will take some time but at the moment we thought we would share this wind farm map with you which Dr Chris Ford has been working on. What Read more…
FIVE-HUNDRED and seven million pounds. That’s how much was added onto British energy bills in 2021 alone because of fees the National Grid has to pay wind farms to shut down. That money – an increase on the £299m which was spent in 2020 for the same reason – was Read more…
A bid to install two 150m high wind turbines less than a mile outside Dundonald has split opinion in the village. The matter was raised at Dundonald Community Council last week, with one resident making an impassioned speech arguing that South Ayrshire Council will be considering a plan that delivers Read more…
Electric dreams Isn’t it time we had a reality check over net zero? Data from Imperial College London shows that removing all hydrocarbons from UK energy supply by 2050, as Theresa May’s government enshrined in law with no debate, will require a 400 per cent increase in peak electricity Read more…
National Grid has reported a jump in annual profits to almost £4.6bn amid growing concern that it is not connecting renewable energy projects fast enough to meet the UK’s climate targets. The FTSE 100 monopoly said its underlying operating profits climbed by 15% to £4.58bn for the financial year ending Read more…
I have been watching the energy debate withnote-0 ever-mountingnote-1 exasperation. On the one hand, we have the Government trying to persuade us to “invest” in noisy, inefficient heat pumps and, on the other, the SNP trying to cover Scotland with Chinese-built wind turbines, which are also vastly expensive, blotting Read more…
Wind problems On Thursday, May 11 a BBC presenter gave what I might describe as an electrified description of wind (just) overtaking gas as the UK’s main grid feed over the past year, even giving the difference to two decimal places .To me this actually revealed lack of knowledge Read more…
Why so many wind turbines? AS yet more reports come in of whales washing up on beaches in the UK and the United States, the seemingly acceptable practice of annihilating wildlife onshore and offshore for industrial wind turbines, that are doing nothing to bring energy bills down or give Read more…